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Title: The centennial - balloon view of the grounds
Alternative Title: Supplement to Harper's Weekly, September 30, 1876.
Creator: Davis, Theodore R., artist
Harper & Brothers, publisher
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1876
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of an aerial view of the buildings for the United States Centennial Exposition held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1876 with captions, including the Main Exhibition Building, Machinery Building, Printing Presses, Horticultural Hall, and U.S. Government Exhibition Building; a hot air balloon is visible at top right; Delaware and Schuylkill rivers visible along top edge; city of Pennsylvania in the distance.
"Drawn and Engraved Expressly for Harper's Weekly, From Photographs by R. Newell & Sons, and Sketches by Theo. R. Davis.-[See Page 798.] / Copyright, 1876, by Harper & Brothers."--text, bottom margin.
Type: image
Extent: 1 engraving : uncolored ; overall 58.42 x 84.14 cm (23 x 33 1/8 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_FAIR_001735
407821
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/3103
Subject: Aerial views
Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.)--Pictorial works
Exhibition buildings--Pictorial works
Hot air balloons--Pictorial works
Lithographs--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Views. (gmgpc)
Place: Philadelphia (Pa.)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Fairs & Expositions
Large Size
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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